You are right. I think I'll put a box like soekris in front of ILO ports to prevent hack on ILO .... By this way I 'll be able to push CD / floppy image to the HP's servers. During upgrade of the soerkis box. I'll use the firewall server COM port and PXE if I should do a full reinstall.
Xavier. 2008/2/21, Jussi Peltola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:50:52PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > I normally go for the time-honoured serial console to a box running > > conserver and a masterswitch though (on a separate lan: you don't > > really want this sort of thing, ILO/DRAC or masterswitch or IP KVM > > or whatever else, on your main lan unprotected). > And it's supposed to be out of band and not shared with the main > network to be really useful when you need it. > > Serial consoles are easily accessed with a telephone modem connected to > the console server, redundant networking is much more complex (and I'd > say less foolproof). > > -- > Jussi Peltola
